As a result, I recently had the pleasure of attending the Drawing Year 2002/03 Exhibition along with our accountant Malcolm Wright and together with David Gluck it was our job to select an artist to receive a Discerning Eye travel bursary of one thousand pounds. We could do so by making the award to either a single work or a body of works. Although there were a number of strong contenders to receive the award we were ultimately unanimous in our decision to award it to Stuart Pearson-Wright for the extremely strong body of work that he had on show.

Stuart was both surprised and delighted particularly as he was unaware that this award was actually going to be given on the night. One of our stipulations for use of the award is that it is used in part to visit a drawing collection somewhere else in the world.

Stuart is currently finalising his thinking about to use the award but told us it comes at just the right time how for him creatively so he is likely to use it quite soon. His initial thought was that for inspiration he might travel to either Cuba or Sri Lanka.

We look forward to following Stuart's progress over the next twelve months and to seeing the results of any works inspired by his travels. In the meantime, his work can be seen on his web site (thesaveloyfactory.com).

 

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